Use ideas from this issue

If you’re short on time and want to use articles from the July 2018 issue of Education in Chemistry, try these suggestions:

• Engage parents in learning formulas: parents test children on modern language vocabulary, so why not chemistry vocabulary?
• Embed accuracy and error early: review your schemes of work to ensure the correct use of terms is practised in practical work
• Talk about diverse role models: sharing stories of LGBT scientists really makes a difference to students’ lives
• Have evaporation questions ready: check students are focusing on the purposes of different evaporation techniques
• Add some lesson magic: switch the popular elephant’s toothpaste demo for the genie in the bottle
• Include safety in lesson starters: embed regular tests on hazards and apparatus as they link to most other 11–14 topics
• Avoid mistakes with graphs: questions involving tables avoid student mistakes not related to concept misunderstanding
• Justify teaching approaches: explicitly thinking through your choices helps your pedagogical content knowledge
• Add new context to old topics: use this issue’s cutting-edge science stories that come with teacher tips and resources.